Re: “Son, It was your idea to be a railroader…” (the inside the cab story of #168’s incident) 
| September 18, 2021 09:46AM |
Continuing with our story:
The #425/Eureka/Glenbrook train did not get back to Chama until around 7:30 pm. The #425 was quickly serviced and coupled up with #168 and the historic consist and the entire dinner train departed Chama for Cumbres Pass at 8:40 pm. Jeff was engineer on the #425 with a fireman supplied by the 315 organization. Jeremy Garcia was engineer on the #168 with Dylan Hudson as fireman. The #168 sounded terribly out of time, but Jeremy managed to deal with it. On the way up the pass both engines needed to stop to steam up near milepost 336 as well as 332 and took on water at Cresco. We finally reached Cumbres Pass at 11:00 pm. A wonderful dinner was served and Frank Barry was on hand to sell and autograph his new book (highly recommended!).
A view from the Dinner Train heading up the pass:
Interior coach lights:
Our dinner stop at Cumbres:
These photos were shot with my cell phone. I tried to take some night time shots with my Nikon set at 1600 ASA but it didn't want to cooperate and I decided that I'd rather enjoy the experience than futz with my camera...
To be continued...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/2021 11:24AM by Dave Peterson.
The #425/Eureka/Glenbrook train did not get back to Chama until around 7:30 pm. The #425 was quickly serviced and coupled up with #168 and the historic consist and the entire dinner train departed Chama for Cumbres Pass at 8:40 pm. Jeff was engineer on the #425 with a fireman supplied by the 315 organization. Jeremy Garcia was engineer on the #168 with Dylan Hudson as fireman. The #168 sounded terribly out of time, but Jeremy managed to deal with it. On the way up the pass both engines needed to stop to steam up near milepost 336 as well as 332 and took on water at Cresco. We finally reached Cumbres Pass at 11:00 pm. A wonderful dinner was served and Frank Barry was on hand to sell and autograph his new book (highly recommended!).
A view from the Dinner Train heading up the pass:
Interior coach lights:
Our dinner stop at Cumbres:
These photos were shot with my cell phone. I tried to take some night time shots with my Nikon set at 1600 ASA but it didn't want to cooperate and I decided that I'd rather enjoy the experience than futz with my camera...
To be continued...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/2021 11:24AM by Dave Peterson.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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